Pocket Planes by NimbleBit - Join Flight Crew #TouchArcade

[fabytm]

Originally Posted by fabytm

I just realized that upgrading the speed of a plane makes it earn less money!

I also forgot to ask!Considering that you get less money per trip after upgrading the speed but getting more coins per hour, is it a good choice to upgrade your planes speed wise?

[Spidubic]

Originally Posted by Symph0ny

Wow some of you guys must be on performance enhancing drugs. I had that top position for the first hour with eight aeroeagles pumping jobs in nonstop. I even have all the south american class 3s fully upgraded and I still got easily overtaken pretty fast. I yield, Whoever you are, youre way too much lol.

I know the feeling. I play PP more that I likely should and yet I still cannot get anywhere near the top 10 when a big event is happening. I would play more but can only pull the phone out to play so much at work.

On another note has anyone notice the huge increase in airport closures since this event started? Is Nimblebits perhaps trying to mix things up a bit? Get people to think more rather than brute force the event?

[wolowizard]

Originally Posted by fabytm

I also forgot to ask!Considering that you get less money per trip after upgrading the speed but getting more coins per hour, is it a good choice to upgrade your planes speed wise?

It depends on your playstyle. If you're always checking in and constantly keeping planes in the air, then faster might be better. If you're more of a 'set it and forget it' player that often has planes sitting idle, slower is probably better.

[Mdaymond]

Originally Posted by Faye Valentine

Here's the top 10:
#1 ... 753
#2 ... 618
#3 ... 571
#4 ... 503
#5 ... 502
#6 ... 432
#7 ... 416
#8 ... 357
#9 ... 343
#10 ... 315

I love how you always seem to be in the top 10 and give the list of current places! I can see how much I need to catch up by! I intend to rock this event. I started a bit late but already up to #37 with 205 jobs delivered. Top 10 should be easy - will push for first Would you care to add me on game centre Faye? This way, our names will show up on the in-game leader board so we can see where the other is? Same applies to anyone else who would like to...!

Also, London AND Paris closed at the same time? Funny Nimblebit, very funny... lol.

Some of you may remember I was building a website for this game. This has been a bit delayed after having had to work a ridiculous amount of hours at work recently!!! Will put it up as soon as I can.

[EDIT]

Okay, the airport closures are killing me!

So far today: London and Paris at the same time, Chicago and now Rio De Janeiro for 60mins! I'm working in a triangle with 2 or more cities open at each point so can work around some what, but still...! I also noticed Jakarta was closed - every city that could be used for a route seems to be being closed at some point

[Spidubic]

I have planes coming in from all corners of the globe for the event. Kinshasa, Lima, New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires are cities my event planes go to for pickups. They are filled by planes from other cities with whatever event items are available at the time. So I may get two from Tokyo, five more in Shanghai, two more in Bangalore. By the time the plane gets to Kinshasa or Rio they are full of event items.

Actually thinking I may have to scale back my event planes. Too much going on at quite the fast pace. Keep checking my phone.

[NimbleTim]

Originally Posted by Som yung gai

Hey, NimbleTim, how about an airport expansion upgrade? You get two per level, and the airports you choose to upgrade become one class higher, and you can only upgrade an airport once?

We played a lot with airport classes including very expensive upgrades and automatic upgrades based on use and nothing ever felt right. In the end the only thing that felt right was having to use strategy to work around set airport classes.

Originally Posted by fabytm

I just realized that upgrading the speed of a plane makes it earn less money!

Trip costs are calculated on the fly based on the current planes stats so you change one and it changes the cost

(int)leg.distance*(([tripPlane planeSpeed]*1*[tripPlane planeWeight]*100)/40000)

Using the carbon fiber upgrade should counter most of the cost increase since it lowers the weight at the same rate.

[Spidubic]

Originally Posted by NimbleTim

We played a lot with airport classes including very expensive upgrades and automatic upgrades based on use and nothing ever felt right. In the end the only thing that felt right was having to use strategy to work around set airport classes.

I like the airport as they are. To give each player the ability to upgrade a class 1 or 2 to a 2 or 3 would add a lot of confusion and in the end possibly give someone a huge advantage during some events. Airport class being based on city population is the cleanest easiest way to do it.

[coastcat]

Originally Posted by Mdaymond

Okay, the airport closures are killing me!

So far today: London and Paris at the same time, Chicago and now Rio De Janeiro for 60mins! I'm working in a triangle with 2 or more cities open at each point so can work around some what, but still...! I also noticed Jakarta was closed - every city that could be used for a route seems to be being closed at some point

Half of my fleet is sitting in Rio right now. Foggy, foggy Rio.

[Spidubic]

Originally Posted by Mdaymond

Okay, the airport closures are killing me!

I have seen more closures today than since I started playing.

[Som yung gai]

Originally Posted by NimbleTim

We played a lot with airport classes including very expensive upgrades and automatic upgrades based on use and nothing ever felt right. In the end the only thing that felt right was having to use strategy to work around set airport classes.

Ok, thanks!
All these closures are preventing me from sending Class 2 aircraft into Euro/Asia. My current route is LA<->Chicago<->London(Paris)<->Moscow<->Beijing(Manila) Getting over 15k coins in profit using Sequoias.